Boeng Tabletop Siphon (Syphon) Coffee Maker with Alcohol Burner, Plastic Coffee Powder Spoon, Filter Cloth and Wooden Stirrer (3 Cups)

Works fine, makes excellent coffee, terrific value. True, the instructions could be a bit more clear but they are hilarious, and after drying tears of laughter we just went to YouTube to find out how to work it. From the instructions: Coffee cooking steps 1. You will be illustrated in accordance with cloth fixed on the glass filter. 2. Number of leaning on a number puts appropriate amount of warm water or hot water going down the seat coffee pot utensil inner, proportion place coffee powder of finishing dawdling away again with one people share one tie spoon What upper picture seat Of honour inner. 3. When water will begin to get up small bubble, the seat kettle has under at any time a seat of honour being thrust into, disturbs lightly with stirring a spoon now after water rolls the seat having a meeting to go up higher, Move, use coffee with homogenous commixture of water. 4. Complete go up of water, about one minute, will be in favor for move away, lampwick puts out the fire with light cover on envelop, seat kettle Lieutenant General continues keeping Xu water yield here under now be regular. 5. Coffee filters the meeting automation after the cooling, the seat of honour, a use the person and lower seat of glass splits the returning to seat kettle middle down along Guan Zhong stream, still light swing seat of honour. 6. The direct take up seat of honour is had ready again with attached to plastic cement cover pursue what be shown as above on laying down a table horizontally being OK to fix a seat of honour glass, tepid that coffee cup is OK enjoy Have accepted both fragrant And pure coffee.

First off, the coffee maker did arrive in good condition. So, I opened the box and discovered shiny glass and metal... Silver and black... Classy. It seems moderately well made. So, then, I looked at the one page of instructions... then I put on my 2x reading glasses. Then I read the instructions. More directly, I saw the words that were strung together... I have to say right here, this is singularly the WORST Chinese to English "translation" that I have seen, and I have seen a lot! Apparently, my number should not lean on my number, and something about disasters... and humor. So... well, back to the internet. (Since there was no mention of the type of fuel required, which BTW, can be most any liquid burner or lamp fuel, but I don't really recommend paraffin based. More on that later.) So, in reading the Q&A on Amazon, I discovered that I can use tap water, (No, not for the fuel....) so I started with that. Put my water up to the 5c mark (By the way, this is not 5- 8oz cups... It is closer to 2 larger coffee mugs) put my grounds in the top section (Oh yeah... the filter... you have to drop the spring/wire/chain thing down the tube and HOOK IT to the bottom of the tube!) I firmly seated the top chamber on the the bottom, and lit my lamp.Make sure that you have the neck of the lower chamber in the clamp... not the neck of the upper chamber. So... Water & Grounds in, lamp lit... About 5 minutes in, I started to realize that 1.)my wick was too long, 2). I had the lamp shield upside down, & 3). there was a thick layer of carbon building up on the glass... BUT... It still looked cool! Really! Okay, now here is a warning... if you are looking to grab a quick cup of joe on your way out the door, this is NOT your coffee maker. The 5 cup, with tap water, took well over 40 minutes to brew. (I tried with the recommended boiling water and 3 cups. It still took 34 minutes. In fact, I made my first cup of pour over drip coffee after 15 minutes, and I still had it dripped and half drunk before the science experiment was done.) So, FINALLY , I was ready for the first cup of amazing vacuum brewed coffee. It was .... underwhelming. I mean, it was okay... but it was like diner coffee. And the MESS! It took me another 30 minutes to get all of the lampblack and carbon soot cleaned up. It was EVERYWHERE! And that soot... you can't just wipe it up. I ended up cleaning the floor, the counters and the sink. AND scrubbing the coffee maker. So, lamp oil... NOT a winner. As I said, I decided to give it a second try. I shortened the wick to about 1/4" (Needs to be half that I think) and used BOILING water up to the 3 c. mark, 3 scoops of grounds. The result was a slightly better cup of coffee, and less soot... but it still took forever. So, my final assessment is, if you want something that looks kinda cool, and will make an okay cup of coffee to go with dessert after dinner, then go ahead and spend the $30. Otherwise, I recommend that you put the money toward a Keurig, or buy a drip cone and a permanent filter (like hemp or bamboo). EDIT/UPDATE: We sprung for a butane burner and it made all the difference. Sure, it’s still a little messy. But No carbon, and no waiting! The whole process took maybe 10 minutes. We bought the ivation Butane Micro Burner, and it was AWESOME. Now, I just need to fine tune my coffee ground quantity. Updated to 5 stars!

Superior flavor coffee in every brew. It's amazing the difference you can taste between a syphon system and all the rest. I love coffee, I have several different makers for brewing. By far the HOTTEST cup of coffee I've ever made. Easily one of my new favorites. Not very many cons, cleaning takes a while and all materials are very fragile but I believe ownership of such a system requires one to be diligent about cleanliness and is understood upon purchasing. For the price you simply should not pass. Tbh I bought this cheap model thinking if I like it I will go ahead and purchase the more expensive brands. That seems very unnecessary for me at this point as this product really does deliver.

Omg I love this thing. Best coffee I've ever had. Takes a while to heat up. I'd suggest getting something to prop the burner up higher and I used tin foil to put the windshield higher. Easy fix. Totally worth the money and time. Play with it and trust me you'll love it. Coffee barley needs sugar or anything after brewing and I used basic breakfast blend Walmart coffee. The strainers are easy to clean. If you want something to just upgrade get a metal strainer. Just look for it and buy one without cloth. The ones it comes with work good either way. Had to return mine due to money issues bc of my pharmD program and finacial aid problems. Gonna get another one asap. Buy one you'll love it. Plus for anyone into odd and older style traditional styles, it makes a great conversation and center peice for a desk or study.

Previously I rated this as 1-star and wrote, "This is a cheap product from China that uses plastic for the handle that melts when near the heat lamp. The upper flask broke so I contacted the seller to purchase a replacement and they kindly offered to send it free, but never did. Cheap = worthless". I am updating my review to 3-stars and say that I finally received the free replacement upper reservoir glass piece unexpectedly a couple months later, after I had forgotten about it, and they also included the bottom flask. Imagine my surprise. Even though I'm dissatisfied with the quality of the product itself, I must admit that I am impressed that the seller went out of their way to get me a free replacement. Thank you to the seller for that additional service.